I am not entirely sure what your question means, but here goes.

The Old Testament (aka the Hebrew Bible) is a collection of ancient writings spanning hundreds of years, primarily focused on the (alleged) history of the Hebrew people and the nation of Israel.

The New Testament is a collection of writings from primarily the first and second centuries CE, focused on the (alleged) life and teachings of Jesus, his death and resurrection, and the establishment of the Christian church.

In both cases, my understanding of the scholarly literature (I am not a biblical scholar I just listen to a few on social media) is that they were written by humans for a variety of purposes, then edited and curated over time to try to establish authority and accrue the power that comes with that authority. No scripture as far as we can tell was ever divinely inspired, let alone handed down from a divine being itself.

The King James Bible is just a translation of the Christian biblical canon, largely based on a prior English translation. I’ll be honest I have forgotten the purpose behind its creation, and I do not care enough to go find out.

Hopefully this was helpful?

Aww. It’s cute.

I dunno. I watched the Witcher season one adaptation and thought it was pretty good. I don’t remember any “education” or overt political messaging.

Seems like bog standard conservative chud hot take to me. But I could be wrong.

And a bag of cocaine! Or maybe that’s the gloves, lol.

I just watched the Rerez video essay about the Ouya debacle earlier today. I followed Ouya news for a bit when the hype was strong, and I knew it fell off hard. But man, I didn’t realize just how bad it was.

Probably?

Lashing out with violence is definitely ingrained in most people as part of the fight/flight/freeze response, which then gets shaped by experience, etc.

“Beating the shit out of people for fun” is waaaaay further down the line in terms of behavioral development, personal experience, and cultural influence, for sure.

There are some ingrained behaviors, instincts, emotional reactions, etc. While we’re not fully blank slates, there is definitely a lot of room for influence to shape children into different sorts of adults.

Feel like I’m in between.

I usually wear simple, single color Tshirts, a light jacket, and one of a small stock of pants.

In a sense I dress just for me - easy and simple means I don’t have to spend time choosing, which I do like. A light jacket let’s me easily get warmer or cooler without having to completely change.

In another, I dress for others - I don’t wear graphic tees very much since high school because I don’t want anyone judging me for what I like, or misunderstanding and prejudging me. With plain tees, I just don’t have to deal with that particular social anxiety.

Yes. Study.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1586566/full

This isn’t a particularly well thought out stance, but I do wonder if books are kind of self-selecting for appropriate audiences? As in, just being able to read and understand something in a book might be enough to warrant your permission to read it.

Movies and shows can be consumed more passively, with almost no maturity required to experience the media, so I can see why providing that guidance would be warranted.

But I don’t know, that stance might crumble under scrutiny.

There are dozens of us

It does, but that may not necessarily be a bad thing. It largely depends on what the overall dataset looks like.

It’s not unusual to tweak your dataset in response to certain biases, especially if there is a known bias at play (for example, I’ve actually met plenty of parents who keep having kids hoping for a boy/girl, and then stop once they get what they initially wanted. As creepy and weird as that is to me, it’s definitely a thing).

This does seem a bit blunt of an approach, however. I would’ve preferred a survey question as part of data collection where parents are asked if they were “trying” for one sex over another, if they wanted “one of each”, etc etc., and then using that info to weight the data.

But without reading the article myself, my assumption is they just used a readily available dataset (such as medical records) rather than recruit participants directly. But I could be wrong, didn’t read it after all.

Aaayyy!!!

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I can’t even do a normal share of an image. It just tried to send a “proxy_image” file instead, which of course isn’t anything that people can actually see if you send it anyway.

Man, I still really struggle to understand​ how we can reliably age-gate anything on the Internet without sacrificing privacy for everyone.

IRL you can just show your govt issued ID, but there’s virtually zero privacy risk doing so. Bouncers don’t register ID scans, typically, and they’re just one person. The govt doesn’t know you went to that club or drank at that one bar, unless they’re actively surveilling you.

But if I needed to identify myself as an adult online, simply by virtue of how digital systems work, that probably requires checking against a govt database, and that database will keep logs, and now Trump knows I went to Pornhub, and likely also exactly what I watched or searched for.

Maybe I’m dumb, but I really don’t know any way around this sort of thing.

I remember reading a Haidt article for an ethics class in grad school. The analysis felt… underwhelming? It’s been too long to remember the article, but I think it was something about the “morality” of conservatives being not worse but different than liberals (limited to the US, iirc). I just remember reading it and going… yeah conservative morality functions differently. It’s also just demonstrably worse, though, even based on what the article was focusing on?

That class was weird though. Mostly just a bunch of folks going,“yeah well this is what I care about” and disagreeing with each other with seemingly no intention whatsoever to try and evaluate or engage with one another.

Was that from Bluesky or somewhere else?

Existing owners can upgrade to the Switch 2 version for $10, gaining better framerates, higher resolutions, and HDR support.

I didn’t realize they had this option. As far as legal routes go, that’s not terrible (assuming there’s no weird downside, like no longer being able to play the original on the switch 1). Free would be better, of course, but $10 certainly beats paying $90 just to play the improved version on switch 2.

High skill ceiling?

More like a high skill floor! Good Lord, I don’t think I’d ever be able to beat that level without cheats, lol.